LIBERIA: Savage Hours

"I'll aim right for the head," declared a smiling Liberian soldier. Said
another: "I hope I get the first shot." A third promised a foreign
journalist: "Don't worry, we'll kill every one of them." On a beach in
the capital of Monrovia, the new military rulers of Liberia last week
executed 13 members of the civilian government of President William
Tolbert, who had been killed in a coup d'état ten days earlier. Among
the witnesses at the savage ceremony was TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack
White, who sent the following report on the first days of...